Pepin County is seeking applicants for a citizen member of the Human Services Board. The citizen member must reside in Pepin County and have received services from Human Services or be a family member of someone who received services. The Human Services Board is responsible for policy-making decisions for the Human Services Department. If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact the Human Services Director at 715-672-8941. If interested, please send a letter of interest to Audrey Bauer, County Clerk at Pepin County Government Center
Dunn County officials announced on Jan. 23, that a planned reconstruction of a substantial portion of Highway B east of Menomonie that was planned for 2023 will have to be delayed until 2024. This unfortunate delay in this major road project is due to circumstances beyond our control,” said Dustin Binder, county highway commissioner. Binder said the county is working with the state Department of Transportation to ensure that all facets of the project can be done at the same time, including the Union Pacific railroad crossing just north of the highway’s intersection with Interstate 94. The project actually is two separate projects, Binder said. This includes the portion from state Highways 12/29 to I-94 and from I-94 to Packer Drive. The total estimated cost of the project is $9 million, with state and federal funds picking up the bulk of the expense.
There are now formal charges in last week's armed robbery in Chippewa Falls. Prosecutors filed the charges yesterday against Elijah Johnson and Jeremiah Maki. Police say they burst into an apartment on Harding Street back in January 21st, pulled a gun, hit someone with it, then stole a Playstation 5 and left. Investigators say the armed robbery came after Johnson and Maki argued with the victim over social media. Both men are out on bond.
The City of Wabasha has decided to not open the ice skating rink this year. During the recent Park Board meeting January 18th, city staff and board members discussed the maintenance hours of making ice for this season. With the erratic temperatures and the future weather outlook, it was decided that it is not worth staff time building up the skating rink only to have it melt the following week. The Park Board is expecting a much more suitable base to make ice on at the new location after the Athletic complex is moved behind City Hall in 2023.
It's 30 years in prison for a northwestern Wisconsin man who beat another man to death with a hammer last year. A judge in Polk County yesterday sentenced Joseph Hadro to three decades in prison for the attack last March in Osceola. Firefighters found the victim inside a burning mobile home. Witnesses say Hadro told them he beat the man to death because he was 'disrespected.'
Freshmen students at Pepin High School recently held a bake sale to help a 6month old from Plum City. Noah Klinski recently underwent a heart transplant and has a go fund me page to help with expenses. The Pepin Students decided to help and held the bake sale and raised $250 for Klinski.
Wisconsin's race for governor was the most expensive in state history. A new report from Wisconsin Democracy Campaign puts the total price tag for last November's race at 164 million dollars. That includes the 42 million dollars Governor Evers spent and the 28 million dollars Tim Michels spent. The rest of the money came from outside groups. The report says Democratic groups were the biggest spenders in the race. The 164 million dollars spent shattered Wisconsin's previous record of 93 million dollars spent on Governor Evers' first race in 2018.
Two veterans from Wisconsin are among those suing over the Biden Administration's new rule for gun braces. Gabriel Tauscher from Oconomowoc and Shawn Kroll from Hartland joined the lawsuit filed yesterday by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty that challenges the ATF's new rule for pistol braces. The ATF argues the braces turn AR-pistols into short-barrelled rifles, which must be registered with the federal government. The WILL lawsuit says the ATF itself said pistol braces do not make guns into rifles, and says Congress needs to change the law for pistol braces, not the ATF. Both Tauscher and Kroll are former Marines who say they have AR-pistols for self-defense.
There's now a lawsuit over Wisconsin's bail reform amendment and welfare-to-work ballot question. Two groups that represent former prison inmates filed the suit yesterday. The groups are not challenging the two questions themselves, rather the groups argue that lawmakers missed the spring ballot deadline by sending the referendum questions to the state's Elections Commission instead of local election managers. The Elections Commission has already certified the bail reform amendment and welfare-to-work question for the April ballot. The Elections Commission says lawmakers made the deadline with one day to spare.
Dairy farmers across Wisconsin got less for their milk to end last year, but it's more than they were getting a year ago. The USDA released its latest milk price report yesterday. The report says Wisconsin dairy farmers got 23-dollars and 30-cents per hundredweight in December of last year. That's down 30 cents from November of last year, but a dollar-80 more than farmers got back in December of 2021. Nationally, milk was $24.70 per hundredweight to end 2022, compared to $21.70 at the end of 2021.
The University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus is moving forward with plans to have graduates walk the stage at spring ceremonies. The university announced yesterday that it will hold two large graduation ceremonies and a series of smaller events that will allow students to be individually recognized. The school announced this fall that renovations at the 3M Arena could alter its graduation plans. Degree conferral ceremonies will be held May 12th and 13th at Huntington Bank Stadium, with individual colleges and departments holding events between May 11th and 13th.
A survey of Wisconsin businesses finds many looking to have their taxes lowered. Scott Manley with Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce says many small businesses are paying the top individual income tax rate of 7.65%. The top concern in the Wisconsin Employer Survey was the worker shortage - something Manley says could be improved through lower income taxes. Significant tax reform is a goal of Republican leaders in the legislature.
Wausau Mayor Katie Rosenberg says she's hopeful that the city can continue removing lead pipes from its water supply. She says the major hurdle is funding, as estimates show it could cost up to 80 million dollars to replace the remaining lead lines in the city. The city has about 8-thousand pipes left to remove. Rosenberg and Milwaukee Mayor Calvalier Johnson were part of a contingent of mayors that traveled to the White House to talk about lead line removal.
The Wisconsin Department of Revenue says they've made some major gains in the money they've collected from businesses who haven't been paying their taxes. The department recently got increased funding for auditing, and Secretary Peter Barca says they've collected nearly 400 million dollars in the process. Barca says this is good for the state, because this is money Wisconsin was due in the first place, and it's money that Wisconsin residents don't have to pay in taxes, in the end.
The public address announcer at Germantown high school is now internet famous for telling fans at a weekend basketball game to 'shut up.' The announcer told fans watching the game between Cedarburg and Brookfield Central to be quiet after they started heckling the referees following a late-game foul. The announcer took to the mic and said 'The WIAA is always looking for officials, and since you do such a good job from the stands, get on the floor, wear a striped shirt, and do it yourselves.' Everything was caught on tape. The WIAA has said that fan abuse is one of the reasons why it is so hard to find and keep referees at the high school level.
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